3 Wine is a program which allows running Microsoft Windows programs
4 (including DOS, Windows 3.x, Win32, and Win64 executables) on Unix.
5 It consists of a program loader which loads and executes a Microsoft
6 Windows binary, and a library (called Winelib) that implements Windows
7 API calls using their Unix, X11 or Mac equivalents. The library may also
8 be used for porting Windows code into native Unix executables.
10 Wine is free software, released under the GNU LGPL; see the file
11 LICENSE for the details.
16 From the top-level directory of the Wine source (which contains this file),
22 Then either install Wine:
26 Or run Wine directly from the build directory:
30 Run programs as "wine program". For more information and problem
31 resolution, read the rest of this file, the Wine man page, and
32 especially the wealth of information found at https://www.winehq.org.
37 To compile and run Wine, you must have one of the following:
39 Linux version 2.0.36 or later
41 Solaris x86 9 or later
43 Mac OS X 10.8 or later
45 As Wine requires kernel-level thread support to run, only the operating
46 systems mentioned above are supported. Other operating systems which
47 support kernel threads may be supported in the future.
50 See https://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine for more information.
53 You will most likely need to build Wine with the GNU toolchain
54 (gcc, gas, etc.). Warning : installing gas does *not* ensure that it
55 will be used by gcc. Recompiling gcc after installing gas or
56 symlinking cc, as and ld to the gnu tools is said to be necessary.
59 Make sure you have the USER_LDT, SYSVSHM, SYSVSEM, and SYSVMSG options
60 turned on in your kernel.
63 You need Xcode/Xcode Command Line Tools or Apple cctools. The
64 minimum requirements for compiling Wine are clang 3.8 with the
65 MacOSX10.10.sdk and mingw-w64 v8. The MacOSX10.14.sdk and later can
69 Supported file systems:
70 Wine should run on most file systems. A few compatibility problems
71 have also been reported using files accessed through Samba. Also,
72 NTFS does not provide all the file system features needed by some
73 applications. Using a native Unix file system is recommended.
76 You need to have the X11 development include files installed
77 (called xorg-dev in Debian and libX11-devel in Red Hat).
79 Of course you also need "make" (most likely GNU make).
81 You also need flex version 2.5.33 or later and bison.
83 Optional support libraries:
84 Configure will display notices when optional libraries are not found
85 on your system. See https://wiki.winehq.org/Recommended_Packages for
86 hints about the packages you should install. On 64-bit platforms,
87 you have to make sure to install the 32-bit versions of these
98 This will build the program "wine" and numerous support libraries/binaries.
99 The program "wine" will load and run Windows executables.
100 The library "libwine" ("Winelib") can be used to compile and link
101 Windows source code under Unix.
103 To see compile configuration options, do ./configure --help.
105 For more information, see https://wiki.winehq.org/Building_Wine
110 Once Wine has been built correctly, you can do "make install"; this
111 will install the wine executable and libraries, the Wine man page, and
114 Don't forget to uninstall any conflicting previous Wine installation
115 first. Try either "dpkg -r wine" or "rpm -e wine" or "make uninstall"
118 Once installed, you can run the "winecfg" configuration tool. See the
119 Support area at https://www.winehq.org/ for configuration hints.
124 When invoking Wine, you may specify the entire path to the executable,
127 For example: to run Notepad:
129 wine notepad (using the search Path as specified in
130 wine notepad.exe the registry to locate the file)
132 wine c:\\windows\\notepad.exe (using DOS filename syntax)
134 wine ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/notepad.exe (using Unix filename syntax)
136 wine notepad.exe readme.txt (calling program with parameters)
138 Wine is not perfect, so some programs may crash. If that happens you
139 will get a crash log that you should attach to your report when filing
143 7. GETTING MORE INFORMATION
145 WWW: A great deal of information about Wine is available from WineHQ at
146 https://www.winehq.org/ : various Wine Guides, application database,
147 bug tracking. This is probably the best starting point.
149 FAQ: The Wine FAQ is located at https://www.winehq.org/FAQ
151 Wiki: The Wine Wiki is located at https://wiki.winehq.org
153 Gitlab: Wine development is hosted at https://gitlab.winehq.org
156 There are several mailing lists for Wine users and developers;
157 see https://www.winehq.org/forums for more information.
159 Bugs: Report bugs to Wine Bugzilla at https://bugs.winehq.org
160 Please search the bugzilla database to check whether your
161 problem is already known or fixed before posting a bug report.
163 IRC: Online help is available at channel #WineHQ on irc.libera.chat.